Agnes

Agnes acts as a centralized platform to keep students updated about events on college campuses across the United States, and “boasts the largest collection of events on and off campus, along with group profiles for all of the student organizations.Currently, Agnes is operating at 20 universities in the Northeast region with over 50,000 plus events and 20,000 plus student organizations.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Students and University Administrators

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Mobile App(ios/Android) to discover Events and find personalize the experience for Students on Campus.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Backend and Frontend of the APP. And some in-house middle-wares to support the backend.

Api2Pdf

Api2Pdf is an API for generating PDFs from HTML, URLs, and Office Docs. You can also merge PDFs together. The biggest challenge is ensuring that the API can handle the massive scale of API requests without rate limits or file size limits. We solved this with the use of AWS Lambda and the speed of Node.js.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Application Developers

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Our users are able to generate PDFs at a scale for an extremely low cost.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Node.js works exceptionally well with the PDF rendering engines of our choice wkhtmltopdf and Headless Chrome, which reduced the complexity for deployment to AWS Lambda.

ApostropheCMS

ApostropheCMS is an open-source CMS framework for Node.js that supports in-context editing, schema-driven content types, has tons of flexible widget modules, and can be easily extended.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Our users are everyone from large enterprises with in-house development teams to small educational and community organizations.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Content editors (as users) get a straightforward way to maintain their online presence by editing their pages in-context, while developers (as users) experience the joy of working with a flexible and sophisticated codebase that is easy to get up and running.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

The fact that Node.js is JavaScript and is super fast with an asynchronous event-driven runtime environment baked in, made it an easy choice.

Binci

Binci allows developers to easily work with Docker containers when developing locally. Through a simple configuration file, developers can utilize Binci to instruct Docker to link services, set environment configuration, run scripts, and execute tasks ephemerally. Binci is essentially a local Continuous Integration environment with almost zero learning curve.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Developers who primarily using Node.js but will support any language and environment.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Ensuring local development with consistent environments, link supporting services and controlling development workflow.

Builder Book

Builder Book is an open source web app to publish documentation or sell books. It’s built with a modern JavaScript stack (React/Material-UI/Next, Express/Node, Mongoose/MongoDB).

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Web developers who want to build their own applications or write and sell technical books.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Users learn some of the latest web development technologies by how our app is built. They can use the app as-is to write documentation or books, or they can modify the app to create their own projects.

Caporal

Caporal.js is a full-featured framework for building command line applications (CLI) with Node.js, including help generation, colored output, verbosity control, custom logger, coercion and casting, typos suggestions, and auto-complete for bash/zsh/fish.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Developers

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

As our slogan suggests "bring back the fun in writing quality code". Provide positive feedback to motivate others to write even better code.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

npm ecosystem: Building, publishing and using npm is super easy.
writing tests: When it comes to integration testing, Node.js together with mocha and supertest really excels. Great performance, great simplicity in writing the tests.
repl: Coming from a Java and dotnet background, the REPL was a great test bed for all sorts of experiments.

CryptoCompare

We list the prices of all major cryptocurrencies and we use Node.js for getting data from exchanges and partners and then distributing the data to our clients.

We had to add Nginx in front of the API to handle some of the cpu load (ssl and gzip) but each server is doing around 3 Million calls per hour (that’s 833 per server per second) and we have 14 of them at the moment (40 million calls per hour, 11,000 per second!).

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

People interested in cryptocurrencies, yahoo fiance, most ethereum web wallets, a lot of cryptocurrency apps

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Cypress

Cypress helps developers create tests easier, faster, and more reliably than ever for anything that runs in a browser.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Developers building web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Cypress makes testing faster, easier and more reliable.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

The leading feature was electron and chromium support. This makes cross-platform easy and gives us a built-in headless browser. Cypress requires something akin to this functionality. Since the browser serves JavaScript it pairs nicely with the Cypress application.
Node's ability to serve multiple clients and coordinating state between them, as well as real-time file watching, were important.

Domestly

We connect busy people to trusted, professional cleaners. Set up a recurring booking in a few easy clicks, and we’ll ensure that your home is kept spotless week after week.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Customers who want their home to be kept clean and cleaners who are looking for work on a regular basis

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Cleaners have a simple portal to manage their time and bookings, while consumers have a simple portal to create bookings and find the right cleaner. The Domestly team has an overview dashboard to manage these two populations.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Portability and reusability of the full-stack js environment helped cut down development time considerably.

Euphoric Adventures

We’re building the world’s highest quality music platform, giving consumers surround sound without complex licensing and discs. Eph, our API and one-line SDK, allows licensees to search the music library and stream tracks to consumers, safely knowing that royalties have been automatically paid to the artist. Eph works by instantly allocating funds to contributors through Smart Contracts, even when the track is a file passed from person to person.

Event Bot

Eventbot lets you create events within Slack channels and share them across your team.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

All types of Slack users

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Events and scheduling can now be done within Slack itself. It's helps teams that have a variety of calendar programs, come together in one place.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Node's event driven IO is great for reading data from multiple sources, and returning it back to Slack. The recent additions of async and await make the code much more concise, easier to read, and debug.

ezPAARSE

ezPAARSE can ingest your (proxy) log files and show how users access subscribed electronic resources. It filters, extracts and enriches the consultation events that were spotted and produces a CSV file following COUNTER codes of practice.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Librarians from universities and research institutions who want to know more about who is reading what from the subscribed electronic resources.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

They gain precise insight into the usage that is made of electronic resources (journals, ebooks, database, etc.)

Fuzzy Weather

This module retrieves weather data using the Dark Sky API and then provides a text description of the weather for a given day using a “fuzzy” representation suitable for use in a voice interface system. Think of this as a virtual meteorologist.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Developers of apps/skills for voice interface products such as Google Home or Amazon Alexa.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

The mathematical analysis of the various pieces of weather data and then merging of that analysis into a human-understandable string of text is non-trivial work.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Mathematical analysis of weather data, conversion of large amounts of data to human-readable format, Dark Sky integration, full test suite.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Shorten the data value chain and make complex big data architectures accessible to every developer and organization. HarperDB can handle structured and/or unstructured data in a single model allowing organizations to report off of their data in real time with no need to transform or move their data to another system. This minimizes cost and complexity.

Hydra

At Flywheel Sports, we’ve built and open sourced our Hydra library for building Node.js based microservices. Node.js and Hydra power our live streaming service, FlyAnywhere. We use Node.js in the automation of our live video production studio and our AWS cloud microservices.

Indospace

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

My app creates a safer environment for both employees and customers. Less cash is on site at the dispensary and the dispensary is paid in full before making deliveries. It reduces lines at dispensaries, while those who order online have their product ready when they arrive to pick it up.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Real-time sockets, simple integration with Redis, Sequelize, MariaDB. The access to multiple open source projects using Yarn. I wouldn't have been able to do a quarter of this project with Ruby, PHP, or Python.

Jukebox

Jukebox backend that allows you to queue up songs from Soundcloud, YouTube, local disk and other music sources into a simple playlist that can be managed from a phone, a web client or any other frontend over a JSON-RPC API.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Power users who might want an automated DJ/jukebox at their next party

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

It lets people at a party queue up and request songs from their phone

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

I needed something that could work at a fairly low level, whilst being fairly fast and offering real time communication

Laforja Sistemas

Complete Node.js management system for bus stations, using access control tools with touch displays for drivers, license plate recognition system, automating traffic managers, reports for billing and a passenger information system. IDS Bus is a web app with several modules and a set of web services.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Bus Stations

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

With this software, the bus station becomes a smart bus station, with vehicle recognition system, automatic platform allocation, logging traffic data, full automatized passenger information system and web services supplying real-time information to third parties.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

All in one scalable technology with multi-protocol for multi-devices communication. You can easily create components to communicate directly with all kind of IoT devices to obtain data and consume third-party web services. You can offer web pages and a set of web services, all in the same application.

locize

locize is a new online service that offers true continuous localization. The translations are managed in your locize project and published from there to the locize CDN to be consumed by your application. Further, you keep a full overview of what is translated and if you order translations from the integrated translation providers you also keep track of your open orders.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Developers, Translators and Project Managers

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Node.js lets us build a full feature service extremely quickly. As our stack grew larger, typescript became an integral part of our stack to keep our projects organized. Being able to use javascript/typescript on both front and backend has proven to be invaluable.

Mocha

Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on Node.js and in the browser. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

All developers writing code for Node.js or the browser of interest in testing their projects and modules.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Helping you make decisions with confidence and catch bugs early on.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Having the same code run on both the Node.js and the browser. Node.js comes along with powerful tooling and the NPM ecosystem. The simplicity and power of Node.js with its async IO makes Mocha an awesome tool for testing.

mStream

mStream is a self-hosted music streaming server where users can access their music on their personal computer from anywhere.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

People with a large music collection. People in countries where there are not many streaming options.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

First, mStream is free without any advertisements, unlike other streaming services. Users are also given privacy when hosting their own server.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

NodeJS runs on all operating systems. mStream needs to have a consistent user experience on Windows, OSX, and Linux, giving it an advantage over other languages. Electron comes with a number of tools making it easy to release Node Apps as installable desktop applications.

Nimblr

Holly by Nimblr.ai is the first artificial intelligence powered assistant that manages healthcare appointments. She chats with patients via messaging automating the appointment cycle in sync with EHRs and scheduling software. A disruptive solution that helps practices keep their schedule full, enhance their patient experience, and streamline their front desk’s tasks.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Health Practices

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Nodecraft

Nodecraft built a platform for a cloud-based game server hosting that combines a better customer experience with high-performance hardware.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Gamers

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

On top of the easy to use control panel and of our high-performance hosting platform, gamers can rent servers from Nodecraft with the ability to rent any game within our system, rather than a single game per paid subscription.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Orchestrating, tracking, and managing game servers requires a real-time framework that can scale to hundreds of thousands of servers, with millions of players online at any given time.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

- Provides unparalleled visibility into Node.js application performance and system health
- Fully-compatible runtime installs in place of open source Node.js without any changes to application code
- Threshold notifications alert you when an issue is detected, allowing time to respond to problems before they snowball into an outage.
- No need to sacrifice performance in order to get data. A low-impact native C++ agent runs on its own thread alongside your application with direct access to the internals of Node.js.
- Use the N|Solid Console to access performance metrics, or send data to your preferred statsd-compliant system/APM.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

N|Solid is a tool that's the main purpose is to monitor Node.js. N|Solid is able to reap the performance and development benefits that any project being built with Node.js has, enabling us to prototype and ship reliable software rapidly.

nXPLORERJS

Production ready cloud native and reactive starter project for GraphQL and REST APIs based on Node.js, Express, and Typescript.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Developers who build microservices, API orchestration layer or a back-end for front-end. It provides a starter for both the business APIs and microservice platform development.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

It uses the best of breed modules to create a production-ready microservice framework. There is no custom code or wrappers so that any developer can modify/replace any of the modules or implementation. There are design patterns used in the sample API implementation that can be used as a reference by developers.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Non-Blocking I/O for APIs, fast build and testing using very basic hardware and very large eco-system of tools, and modules that can be plugged in or replaced.

Obie

Obie is an AI platform that brings all of your knowledge and documentation into one spot so that your team can focus less on finding information and more on reaching their goals.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Mostly small/medium businesses, or small/medium teams inside larger organizations. Right now, we're heavily integrated with Slack and Atlassian Stride, so users of those chat applications usually end up giving Obie a try.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

They don't have to search messy Google Drive folders or stale Confluence wiki pages...Obie will do all the searching for them. Just ask Obie a question and he will search all of the team's connected knowledge in a matter of seconds and bring back the results in a chat message.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Speed and flexibility. Obie will become the middle-man between any conversational interface and a team's knowledge, so the flexibility in being able to build both sides with one language makes life so much easier. The community contributions and libraries also help in development. Also, the conversational interface is built entirely in Node.js!

Profound.js

Profound.js is a revolutionary solution for Enterprise business application development using Node.js. It brings together client-side and server-side development technologies.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Businesses that are adopting Node.js for transactional, database-driven applications. Businesses that are connecting legacy apps to new development, or transform monolithic, legacy applications into modularized Node.js applications.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

One framework for both server-side and client-side, JavaScript for all development, visual drag-and-drop development for mobile and web interfaces, and modernizes legacy applications automatically

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Ability to modularize monolithic business applications, easier integration of IoT and other NPM capabilities with existing business applications, ability to convert legacy COBOL or IBM i RPG into Node.js, and automatic support for multiple databases

Purchase Commerce

Purchase Commerce is a well organized and innovative e-commerce platform that could evolve with the modern e-commerce industry. Purchase Commerce is built with Node.js and Angular technology stack which are fast, scalable, real-time reactive and rich user experiences with real-time insights.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Any kind of retailers, agencies, developers, and entrepreneurs.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

RaiLocate

RaiLocate – An app for latest train departure times with information on delays and platform information – non-franchise related – for entire UK rail network. Search is valid for station names as well as the Network Rail CRS short code – i.e Glasgow Central = GLC

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Any person commuting by rail in the UK

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Reaction Commerce

Reaction Commerce is an open source, real-time reactive commerce solution built on JavaScript (ES6). Our platform allows anyone to customize, extend, and deploy an online store or marketplace.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Developers, agencies, and retailers

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Users have full access to our codebase, which means they have the ability to customize and sell anything. And since also have access to the npm ecosystem, it's easy to rapidly integrate new functionality using thousands of open source packages.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Real-time reactivity and event-driven infrastructure. Since we're built on Node.js, we're already built on the most cutting-edge technology.

SaveToDrive

Save any files from the internet to Drive without downloading it to your computer and re-uploading it to drive. You can download any small or large sized files from the web and within few minutes it will be on your drive.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Internet Cloud Drive users who use cloud drives as a platform to store and share files.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

User don't have to download file and re-upload it to there cloud drives they can just put URL of host file and it will be on their respective cloud drives.

Score Master

SCORE MASTER is a live IP flow routing system for deployment within IP-based live media production workflows.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

TV Broadcasters

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

The system uses SDN control methods so users can more easily manage latency-sensitive live media. SCORE MASTER gives engineers better visibility across a network as well as the ability to communicate with entire IP infrastructures at once. This removes operational roadblocks from new technology deployment and creates a more efficient overall workflow. SCORE MASTER also lets operators monitor entire networks. They can service aspects of the facility to maintain the system and ensure fast, efficient delivery of live content around any infrastructure.

Squash Tomato

As someone who enjoys cooking and has a lot of responsibilities, I wanted an easier way to create a shopping list that would also make grocery shopping easier. I built Squash Tomato to be accessible from anywhere, but specifically for mobile devices. I wanted moms and dads to be able to manage their grocery list on the go, on the couch, or maybe even on the toilet.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Moms and Dads

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Phone becomes more than a way to communicate with the family, but a way to work together on something everyone wants - food!

Strapi

A Node.js Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful API with no effort.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Freelance developers, businesses, and web-agencies.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Save time to create their APIs and build the dashboards to manage them. Thanks to our plugins ecosystem the projects are easily extensible to infinity. It allows everyone to add features to their API or dashboard without any coding skills.

Study Notes

At Study Notes, we are building the best and simplest learning tools to empower students to accelerate their learning – i.e. to learn more effectively, in a shorter time, and with better long-term recall.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

The site is used by millions of students in all 50 U.S. states to prepare for AP courses and exams. Study Notes offers the best Advanced Placement study guides, practice tests, and notes on the web contributed and curated by students and teachers like yourself.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

We believe that the educational process can be massively accelerated – students shouldn't need to spend 15 years in a classroom before they're useful to society! We want to help every student learn faster so they can contribute more useful art, science, and technology to society over their lifetime.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

The Express framework made it easy to get a production site off the ground quickly. Good MongoDB bindings made it easy to use MongoDB, which was a very natural database choice for JavaScript since it's based on storing JavaScript documents. Excellent Node.js WebSocket support made it easy to add compelling real-time features to the site.

Superscript

Superscript is the first writing software designed exclusively for writers of comic books, graphic novels, and manga. Superscript includes all the usual features found in other text editors, plus it automatically handles the tedious and distracting tasks you would normally be doing manually when writing a comic book script.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Writers of comic books, graphic novels, and manga.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Users save time and reduce cognitive load by having Superscript handle all of their formatting, page and panel numbering and word counting automatically.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Node's ability to run anywhere combined with the JS community's penchant for sharing code, time and ideas made this project possible.

swagger-stats

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

With statistics and metrics exposed by swagger-stats, you may spot problematic API endpoints, see where most of the errors happen, catch long-running requests, analyze details of last errors, observe trends, and set up alerts.

The Forge Arena

The Forge Arena is a tactical first-person shooter that supports up to 24 simultaneous players in an action-packed arena. Our competitive game mode features a two-phase round where both teams compete to gather points by completing certain objectives. To gain an edge over their opponents, players must manage their economy to equip themselves with the weapons of choice.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Gamers - Worldwide

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Trading Game

The Trading Game is a free app developed by experts in financial markets and trading, designed to teach absolute beginners how to make a profit from stocks or on the Foreign Exchange Market (Forex).

Light, fast and simple, the Trading Game is perfect for newcomers looking to combine learning with trading. Get updates on the best times to trade, gain access to top brokers, and learn how to spot changes in the Forex and stock markets.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

People interested in learning how to trade Forex, Stocks, and Cryptocurrencies

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

txr

Never before has transferring files or directories from one machine to another been so easy. Our team uses this tool to very quickly and painlessly pass files to and from each other, or to transfer files to and from AWS EC2 instances when needed.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Anyone who wants to be able to pass small or large files and directories from one machine to another without a cloud service, without needing to understand SCP, SSH, or any other technology that requires setup and config to simple pass a file from one server to another.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Simply ease-of-use and speed makes this project killer for anyone wanting to pass/stream files from one place to another.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Socket.IO and streams (low memory footprint and the ability to pass files or directories small and large alike)

Wallions

People from all over the world can discover and share wallpapers at Wallions. If you need a wonderful wallpaper for your Phone, Tablet, Desktop, Laptop, TV, or any other device, we’ve got you covered.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Photographers, people who want a fresh wallpaper, and people who share wallpapers.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

By using Node/Express, we were able to reduce server costs since its very light on server resources and our stacks were greatly simplified. Our users have noticed the significant speed and performance improvements. We are able to use Google’s Vision API to automate tagging, therefore, making a convenient experience for our users.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Insanely fast development time! We completely trashed our old stack and started from zero. Within 3 months, we rebuilt everything and more with a single developer.

WebTorrent

WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. It’s written completely in JavaScript and uses WebRTC for true peer-to-peer transport. No browser plugin, extension, or installation is required.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

One of the most exciting uses for WebTorrent is peer-assisted delivery. Popular content is served browser-to-browser, quickly and cheaply. Rarely-accessed content is served reliably over HTTP from the origin server.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Imagine a video site like YouTube, where visitors help to host the site's content. The more people that use a WebTorrent-powered website, the faster and more resilient it becomes. Using open web standards, WebTorrent connects website users together to form a distributed, decentralized browser-to-browser network for efficient file transfer.

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Node.js is great for high-performance, low-level networking. Node.js Streams are an excellent software abstraction for building low-level protocols in peer-to-peer, IoT, and other decentralized systems. Also, the fact that Node.js uses the JavaScript language is very compelling for WebTorrent. We needed a single code-base that would work in Node.js, the web browser, and native platforms like Electron.

wolkenkit

wolkenkit is a CQRS and event-sourcing framework for JavaScript and Node.js which fits perfectly with domain-driven design (DDD). It provides the technical foundation for your application, including an event-store and a scalable real-time API. This allows you to focus on what’s essential: Solving actual real-world problems in no time.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Developers and ISVs

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

They can focus on what's really important (their domain), without having to develop the technical foundation. wolkenkit provides a framework that abstracts away all the technical stuff. This way, wolkenkit helps you to build better software faster.

YAGA – ‘Yet Another Geo App’

YAGA is developed by three friends involved in OSGeo and the german-local-chaper FOSSGIS. Our first step was the creation of a front-end map component. We implement Leaflet into Angular2 and above in a granular way. In addition we start writing a spatial-data-infrastructure (SDI) with express on server-side.

Who are the consumers/users of your app, product or project?

Geographers, OSM-Mappers and people who want to use maps or wants to handle spatial data.

What business or technology benefit do your users get by using your app, product or project?

Modern pattern in geospatial frameworks. High reliabillity through software-tests and fast execution through streams and non-blocking I/O

What were the most compelling features of Node.js for this project?

Especially on server side: Working in streams and with a non-blocking I/O for the big amount of (spatial-)data